Sustainable diets
Diets with low environmental impacts that contribute to food and nutrition security and to healthy life for current and future generations. Sustainable diets protect and respect biodiversity and ecosystems and are culturally acceptable, accessible, economically fair and affordable, nutritionally adequate, safe, and healthy, while optimizing natural and human resources.
References:
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Burlingame, B. & Dernini, S. (2012). Sustainable diets and biodiversity directions and solutions for policy, research and action. FAO Headquarters, Rome.
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Willett, W., et al. (2019). Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. The Lancet, 393(10170): p. 447-492.
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